The handgun market is not a duopoly

[stchman]

Actually, it appears that the M17 doesn't have this problem. So if people were buying EXACTLY the same thing as the military contract, that would have worked out.

Makes you wonder IF Sig Sauer knew about the problem on the guns they were selling the public.

 

[Jeb Stuart]

While liberals squawk all the time on fake gun statistics, fake parts etc. Look at how much crap flows through the internet from so called owners. Preconceived notions, bias misinformation, Mass advertising by some companies, Idiots that bash guns they have never shot or handled a particular firearm. So many experts on so many issues. Some guy hears something he heard on the net, hears it again and like a massive snowball it starts rolling. Now one million experts on a certain gun or ammo.
Just like one certain so called News Channel, is really just a political Propaganda machine. The Sheep hear something repeated over and over and over, until it becomes the truth. Just like some will say this or that firearm is the best every made, then some other dope picks up on it and it is repeated over and over until people actually believe it.
I was recently at my local range, and had to wait for a group of newly hired Security Guards finish training. The instructor, a friend of mine told me they were are newbies to the world of shooting. Later I overheard many of them boosting about how great their training gun is the best gun ever made. One guy in particular was telling all this info to some of his classmates, and I simply asked him "Compared to what? Of course he did not know, but obviously heard the Propaganda from others so he is now a expert. And I would bet a dollar to a doughnut that when these newbies left the range, they were telling all their friends what is the best gun in the world.
I don't know, maybe the Russians are behind all this, who knows?

 

[Fishslayer]

A SIG resides by my bed... but it's metal & has a hammer... as a proper handgun should.

 

[tarosean]

I assume that any handgun that the military chooses is well tested, and therefore a solid reliable handgun.

whereas I assume its not the best at anything other than a price point...

 

[Omaha-BeenGlockin]

I always thought it was either Glock or 1911

Have Glocks, Rugers, a 1911 and Shields, oh and a lowly Taurus------wont own another Sig

 

[Zerodefect]

It is. Glock or 1911.

Everything else is just....less. Should be interesting to see what the next big break through is going to be, but it won't be a Glock copy.

 

[JR24]

I don't know how much you shoot, but the trigger dingus on my M&P and Glock pistols often wears a raw spot on my trigger finger -- I'm starting to develop rough calluses there. I switch to my 1911s for relief, and its one of the things that motivated me to get the p320 -- shooting it after the M&P or Glock provides trigger finger relief much like the 1911. Again I rarely shoot less than 200 rounds per gun in an outing and usually do three or four guns.

Everyone is different and I'm not criticising, but I have never had an issue with any dingus guns. My Glock 30s will give me "glock knuckle" after a few hundred rounds.

I never knew the dingus was an issue until the internet told me about it. Heck, I never even noticed that there were smoothed and ridged Glock triggers until the internet told me.

 

[Airman Basic]

Reading all this, I admit I don't know enough to have a opinion. The M17 doesn't have the drop problem? The civilian 320 does? The M18 does? What's the difference in these? Yes, confusion reigns here.

 

[tarosean]

Should be interesting to see what the next big break through is going to be, but it won't be a Glock copy.

don't think we will ever see anything truly new until we move away from metallic cartridges.

 

[Officers'Wife]

In the end it's all personal opinion. I've heard SIG's praised from the rooftops, my only complaint with the one I've shot is it was ugly. By the same token my Gramps had this HUGE S&W that he could shoot 45 LC (or Scholfield for the purists) or 45 ACP using funny looking little clips to hold them together. It's ugly and heavy and kicks like a mule and absolutely resists any kind of hearing protection. However, the thing help bring Gramps home from France & Germany in the 40's so it's aesthetics become quite irrelevant. Glock? Shot a couple, less than impressed but for various reasons I prefer a single action. My little Colt Commander I'm told is underpowered (38 Super) but I can hit what I aim at in a variety of situations and I tend to think those living creatures I have hit considered themselves to having less than a perfect day.

Now I can't speak for firearms but I can tell you for certain and for sure that when you have a big beautiful John Deere mired in the mud... even an old rusty cranky and creaky D4 cat that is able to pull out suddenly looks like a wonderful machine with many fine and beautiful qualities. I have doubt none if the animal by-product were hitting the air conditioning and all I could find was hubby's Glock... It would suddenly be the single most wonderful pistol in the world. It all depends on your point of view.

 

[Jeb Stuart]

[QUOTEn the end it's all personal opinion
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[Zerodefect]

If that were true, I'd still be carrying Al framed 1911's.

The shot timer said I should carry Glocks, not me. So I carry Glocks now.